Arabia

¹³ The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

¹⁴ not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.

¹⁵ But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

²³ Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

²⁴ all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;